from .com to .net!
I started the allanko.com blog almost 2 years ago under GoDaddy.com’s Quick Blogcast, an extremely user-friendly blogging platform, and it thus far had served me and my audience well all this time.
As I progress with blogging and blog maintenance, I’ve come to uncover all that the Quick Blogcast platform is not capable of offering.
The software had too many weak points:
- Inflexibility of personalization. Customization is difficult in Quick Blogcast, and whatever little you can do with it, you have to do with utmost caution (my blog crashed about 2 times in the past when I attempted to overhaul the site design).
- Absence of knick-knacks. Sidebar widgets and additional plug-ins that are readily available in other platforms such as Blogger and Wordpress are scarce in Quick Blogcast. Even the ubiquitous tag cloud is only given as a premium offering, available only if you pay an additional amount.
- It’s just not pretty enough.
Then why did I have to move from the old allanko.com domain if I only had concerns with the blogging 
platform, you ask? Pretty simple.
The .com domain is tightly integrated with the old Quick Blogcast site, and I didn’t want to risk losing my current (albeit paltry) blog reader base as I migrate into Wordpress. And considering how cheap it is to register domains these days, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to get the .net equivalent along with the new site. I will still retain the allanko.com domain, which should eventually autoforward here.
Thank you for visiting my blog and hope to hear from you on the comments!
Nice! Although I use a different blogging platform, I can’t deny that Wordpress is really topnotch.
I just added the .net feed to my reader. Keep up the good work! I’m looking forward to your thoughts on Up. I don’t want to be a spoilsport, but I just have to say, IT’S AWESOME!
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sinch replied:
Hi Aldrin! Thanks for being the first commenter on the wordpress reincarnation of my blog
. Your tumblr site is cool and simple, I like it!
And yeah, will share what I think of UP shortly. Thanks again!
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hello allan, i’ve linked your site with my blog.
thanks.
i like your posts on food, as i and my family are self-proclaimed foodies,
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sinch replied:
Hi docgelo,
Thank you for linking to me and for stopping by to comment. Checked out your blog as well and got some resto ideas… Foodies rule!
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